Ottawa Herald, The (Newspaper) - February 28, 1984, Ottawa, Kansas The Ottawa Herald FEBRUARY KANSAS 66067 88 57 20 Cents 24 Pages 3 Sections Inside Highlights Local plans to replace the Main Street bridge in its Page National Chances of Reagans school prayer constitutional amendment not really so remote Page Sports Ottawa University faces Southwestern in mini playoff Page Wellsville cagers move on to 3A semifinals in prep Page The ABCs Of Hazardous Material Emergencies How would county emergency personnel react if a an derailed in the area and a propane car caught About 73 such personnel sheriffs ighting volunteers and among others Rained a better grasp of how to respond to such an emergency Monday night when attending a seminar at the Franklin County Courts hazardous materials training session was sponsored by Santa Fe Railroad and the Union Pacific which includes the Missouri Pacific similar session was given to Ottawa Department of Public Safety personnel Monday discovered we were having problems of emergency response people not knowing what to an environmental engineer with Santa who led most of the Monday night Sponsoring seminars such as Monday nights is a seep the railroads are beginning to Malleck especially when they were finding that firefighters would wash a contaminant down a drain and we had to it down the drain and Into a About the first half of Monday nights session dealt or These occur especially with such propane as cited often can tell whether a BLEVE will if flames on a tank car begin getting brighter and ke begins to If these characteristics witnesses likely will the four ensuing characteristics of a BLEVE A flash 200 to 300 feet in diameter a fireball rising from the ground up to feet missile or shrapnel flying up to feet from the scene of the and the blast which can break on buildings up to three miles werent prepared for a BLEVE last Thirteen of them were around a burning propane tank trying to cool it when the BLEVE and they arent around As Malleck pointed in most instances when a tank car is burning the best thing may be to stand back and let it do its especially if there are no structures or valuable property if there are structures or valuable property one of the first things emergency personnel may want to do is evacuate the Malleck suggested that the emergency personnel get at least feet or out of the range of missile and that the general public be kept back at least twice that A central command post should be established for those authorities responding to a hazardous materials After a BLEVE has secondary fires to surrounding buildings may be the first to while higher officials try to determine the contents of the burning tank There are several ways to determine the cars For about 40 the federal Department of Transportation requires that their names be stenciled on the side of a Malleck warned not to rely solely on stenciled because its put on there by human beings and human error always is train conductors are responsible for keeping consists and waybills for a Malleck are listings of what a trains while waybills are documents explaining a little more in detail whats in each When responding to an officials may want to first find the conductor and his If the conductor and others are running toward that should tell you something right Malleck Other sources of determining a cars contents include DOT placards that should be placed on hazardous materials Such markers also are required for barges and planes hauling hazardous as are documents similar to consists and though those documents may be called something else such as ladings to Malleck warned against relying on one source of information to identify a because of the human error Other sources of material officials should have handy in the event of an he include chemical resource guides and emergency phone numbers for such places as the railroad and an agency knowledgeable witti When dealing with a chemical spill that apparently is no immediate fire caution also should be especially in coming in contact with the the personnel also learned or had reiterated to them Monday A spill could involve a chemical thats fatal when simply or fatal before it can be With such chemical which most often involve herbicides and you dont have a BLEVE but a and more information from an outside agency is This stuff can be so toxic if you wade through it can absorb up through the bottom of your shoe and make you sick and kill Malleck If no effort is made toward decontamination once contact with a chemical is made such as throwing the shoes away you could go plop down in a chair and read a and here comes your baby waddling across the The infant may touch the shoes or crawl through contaminated debris on the and become or Legislative Highlights Wolf Creek Rate Shock The House Energy and Natura Resources Committee on Monday sent to the House floor a at easing the rate shock electricity consumers will feel when Wolf Creek nuclear plant begins operation next The key provision in the prohibits the Kansas Corporation Commission from allowing utilities with excess power to pass onto consumers the interest charges on that excess Competency Tests The Senate Education Committee endorsed a proposal to continue a minimum competency testing program for elementary and secondary school students in Kansas or at least five Tuition Increase A proposal to raise student tuition at community colleges by 20 percent won approval in the Kansas Current law allows community colleges to charge students between and for The proposal would allow community colleges to set tuition between and Lennen Endorsed A Senate panel recommended chairman of the Kansas Corporation and Fred Weaver of the state Board of Tax be confirmed by the upper legislative ju Survey Says Hart Coming On AP New Hampshire playing their traditional and often unpredictable role in presidential went to the polls today with one survey indicating Gary Hart had pulled even acknowledged front runner Walter The conducted Saturday through for ABC News and the showed the former president and the Colorado each with 30 percent It surveyed 446 Democrats and independents who said they were sure to vote Placing third was John Glenn with 14 The Jesse Jackson had 8 Based on a rolling the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 The poll indicated a dramatic movement of support toward who placed second in the Iowa party caucuses last On an earlier ABC Post poll showed a lead for Mondale over An even earlier poll had showed Mondale with a 14point In line with state the 27 voters of a tiny mountain cast their ballots at with Ernest Hollings of South Carolina receiving 3 votes and Mondale getting 2 votes from Hart and former Florida Reubin Askew had 1 each On the Republican President Reagan had 15 while Hollings had 5 Most New Hampshire polls open at 9 or 10 and close anywhere from 6 to 8 a new CBS York Times poll showed Mondale far ahead among those who said they were likely to vote in a Democratic primary or That released showed Mondale with 57 followed by Jackson with 8 Glenn and Hart with 7 percent former George McGovern with 6 Hollings with 2 Cranston with 1 percent and Askew with less than 1 Weather The National Weather Service reporting station at the Ottawa Water Plant recorded for early Monday morning a low of 32 degrees and a high that afternoon of COUNTY Lows in the Northwest winds diminishing to 5 to 10 Wednesday sunny and not as Highs around Light south Constituents Get Allens Attention TOPEKA Constituent pressure has swayed State Jim to oppose the placement of an honor camp for prison inmates at Melvern Allen announced his decision after hearing both sides of the honor camp Me noted in a press release The people of the area have presented a petition against the camp with over I also received many letters and telephone calls against the cited two major reasons for his One is the sad location of the camp in a prime civilian camping The other involves the screening process that would determine which tes would be placed at the honor Ask today if his statement applied to honor camps in the senator Im not opposed to He added that he could support a camp at other area lakes or even at Melvern if the location were changed I could look at he Secretary Michael Barbara of the Department of Corrections has been made aware of the general dissatisfaction with the proposed Melvern site and has been asked to propose some Allen said the camp might even be based at so the inmates could be transported to Perry and Clinton as well as Pomona and others in the Barbara is that he be allowed room for discretion in the inmate screening I think the constituents have looked at the screening process and have seen what can Allen Its going to have to be I would do my best to try to put some teeth into Allens vote to approve the establishment of new honor camps would not necessarily hinge upon changes in the screening Im still in favor of honor he but on the current Melvern proposal hes drawn the Its been a very tough ORC Continue Accords The Com mi Comi Ottawa Recreation and the City ion and their staffs spent several toours Monday hammering out details of their annual cooperative agreements The resulted in no major in policy or respon according to City The also explained the recent in youth fees it had to the satisfaction of the four commissioners Mayor Lister was The leases the Municipal Fool in Forest Park from the city under an agreement that expires every March Under the current the city pays for the water and the ORC pays for The city Department of Public Works performs major and the ORC is responsible for minor repairs and daytoday maintenance during the The city is completing almost worth of capital improvements and repairs at the which also will be resealed and painted before the 1984 season The filter system was overhauled at a cost of plates were the locker room stalls were the chlorine tor was and the sod ash feed pump was replaced with a modern The DPW budget paid for everything except the chlorinator which were bought by the Utility Director of Utilities Jack Davis said all wiring at the pool has been inspected and was found to be in good The DPW budget also will pay for the resurfacing of the Forest Park tennis courts this The ORC also leases the Forest Park and OrUs Cox Field ball diamonds from the city the city mows the former diamonds and the ORC mows the The ORC pays all the cost of lighting at Forest Park and 60 percent of that at Cox The city replaces the light but the number of times per year this is done is being The ORC wants some replacement to avoid dark spots during The ORC has voted to recommend that the west diamond at Cox be lighted for but the city would have to pay for Thats not in the current The ORC also reported that the local Babe Ruth organization wants to rebuild the dugouts at Cox Field at its own The new floor would be l Vi feet below ground WATCH Public Safety Officer Richard Oglesby top steadied a roof ladder as engineer David passed a hose down to another firefighter following a flue fire at the home of David 114 early The blaze was reported at by a DPS officer after he observed flames erupting from the DPS reports indicate the fire was caused by a creosote buildup in the
